The 2020 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship was the 10th edition of the

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, the biennial international youth

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championship organized by

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for the women's under-20 national teams of the North, Central American and Caribbean region. The tournament was held in the

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between 22 February and 8 March 2020. The final tournament is expanded from eight to 20 teams, using the same format as the

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. The top two teams of the tournament would have qualified for the 2021 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup (originally 2020 but postponed due to

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) in

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as the CONCACAF representatives, along with

who would have automatically qualified as hosts. The U-20 Women's World Cup was initially to be co-hosted with

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, but they backed out from co-hosting due to COVID-19 concerns, due to having the highest cases and deaths in the region. The fourth CONCACAF team to qualify, which would have initially been

, was not confirmed. However, FIFA announced on 17 November 2020 that this edition of the World Cup would be cancelled. The

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won the sixth titles, after defeated

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4–1 in the final.

Qualified teams

The qualifying format has changed since the 2018 edition, and the teams are no longer divided into regional zones. The 41

teams were ranked based on the CONCACAF Women's Under-20 Ranking as of 2018. A total of 26 teams entered the tournament. The highest-ranked 16 entrants were exempt from qualifying and advanced directly to the group stage of the final tournament, while the lowest-ranked 10 entrants had to participate in the qualifying stage, where the four group winners and runners-up advanced to the round of 16 of the knockout stage of the final tournament. On 13 January 2020, CONCACAF announced that Costa Rica and Panama, who had automatically qualified for the 2021 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup as hosts, would no longer participate in the 2020 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship. As a result, the following changes to the tournament were made: *

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( Qualifying Group A winner) and

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( Qualifying Group B winner), enter the group stage instead of the round of 16. *

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( Qualifying Group A third place) and

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( Qualifying Group B third place) enter the round of 16.

Venues

Draw

The draw for the group stage took place on 19 April 2019, 11:00 EDT ( UTC−4), at the CONCACAF Headquarters in

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. The 16 teams which entered the group stage were drawn into four groups of four teams. Based on the CONCACAF Women's Under-20 Ranking, the 16 teams were distributed into four pots, with teams in Pot 1 assigned to each group prior to the draw, as follows: Following the exclusion of Costa Rica and Panama from the tournament, their vacated positions in the group stage were replaced by Guyana and Saint Kitts and Nevis respectively. Furthermore, the vacated positions in the round of 16 of Guyana and Saint Kitts and Nevis were replaced by Bermuda and Barbados respectively.

Squads

Players born on or after 1 January 2000 are eligible to compete. Each team must register a squad of 20 players, two of whom must be goalkeepers.

Match officials

CONCACAF announced the appointment of the match officials on 14 February 2020.

Group stage

The top three teams in each group advance to the round of 16, where they are joined by the four teams advancing from the

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. ;Tiebreakers The ranking of teams in each group is determined as follows (Regulations Article 12.8): #

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obtained in all group matches (three points for a win, one for a draw, zero for a loss); #

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in all group matches; #Number of goals scored in all group matches; #Points obtained in the matches played between the teams in question; #Goal difference in the matches played between the teams in question; #Number of goals scored in the matches played between the teams in question; #Fair play points in all group matches (only one deduction could be applied to a player in a single match): #*Yellow card: −1 points; #*Indirect red card (second yellow card): −3 points; #*Direct red card: −4 points; #*Yellow card and direct red card: −5 points; #Drawing of lots. All times are local, AST ( UTC−4).

Group C

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Group D

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Group E

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Group F

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Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, if a match is level at the end of 90 minutes,

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is played, and if still tied after extra time, the match is decided by a

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(Regulations Article 12.13).

Bracket

Round of 16

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Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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Final

Winners

Goalscorers

Qualified teams for FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup

The following three teams from CONCACAF would have qualified for the 2021 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup before the tournament was cancelled, including

who would have qualified automatically as hosts. The fourth CONCACAF team to qualify for the 2021 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, which would initially have been co-hosts

(which had pulled out of hosting), was not confirmed. :

¹ Bold indicates champions for that year. ''Italic'' indicates hosts for that year.

Awards

The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament.

References

External links

Concacaf Women's Under-20 Championship
CONCACAF.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Concacaf Women's U-20 Championship 2020

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